READER'S GUIDE. EDITOR'S CHOICE.

Americans and their popular-reading habits

December 30, 2001|By Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor.

Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999

By Michael Korda

Barnes & Noble, 226 pages, $20

Take a cruise through the collective American library with this fun little book. Michael Korda suggests changes in American cultural tastes and enthusiasm through the evolution of the best-seller list, but read the yearly lists over the course of the century and make up your own mind about what it all means.